National Park Upgrades

WASHINGTON – The Interior Department said Wednesday it would spend a total of $256 million to repair “aging National Park Service infrastructure” and address longstanding maintenance backlogs that have plagued the park service for years.

The funding includes:

$37 million for California, the bulk going to Yosemite National Park;

$35 million for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina;

$33 million to stabilize the Ellis Island seawall in New York;

$21.3 million to restore the roof and portico of the Jefferson Monument in Washington;

$21.3 million to rehabilitate and retrofit the Mammoth Hotel in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.